A Pacific rim review without the words: awesome, robots, punching, aliens, on purpose

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2013)

That might be a daunting challenge for some; not to demean anyone, but those are some of the common words used to express their opinion on this film. 8/10 sounds like a bit much, but I'm one of the people who gave Freddy vs Jason a 7/10 for being a great guilty pleasure, and the same is said here. I can probably name off more things wrong with this movie than actual praise.
For example, the title is horrible. There's probably so many porn jokes about this title, that it ends up being funny. This title does not emote sci-fi like what any movie should, I asked people about if they were going to see it, but half of the time they didn't know what I was talking about. Now this decision debatable, that this movie has no big name star. It had Tom Cruise for awhile, but that changed. This probably might have done a bit better at the box office, had it star a successful actor. Of course the big thing that every negative has, the fact that the actors present do not convey their characters and go through poor; if not none, character development. I agree, it happens right at the beginning, when the brother dies. The did not build it up the slightest, so when he died I didn't care the slightest. The whole movie is like that, whenever your not seeing Mech-suits bashing gargantuan creatures, your most likely bored, I was at least.
Since I listed a few of the problems with movie and said that there was some praise, you probably already know what is. It's the action, no detective work required. But it's really good, you won't be able to convince me that the action is bad in anyway. Good angles, the effects, the movement, and my god the score. The trumpets and guitar in the background, makes the Evangelion wannabes look like titans walking amongst shattered Earth and preparing to face off against the scaled menace. While on the subject go violence, I have say that the names of these towering models of steel are oddly named, Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha are okay, But Striker Eureka and Gypsy danger? When I heard Gypsy danger I was thinking about that purple robot from Mst3k. Names are forgivable, poorly killing them off is not. For example, Crimson Typhoon is killed off first. It shows off it's one gimmick: doing a judo throw, and then dies from the head being crushed. If you thought that was bad Cherno Alpha gets it worse, it doesn't even have a gimmick that it shows off, and gets double teamed on. With that at least you get a "tragic" death. If anything, they make it look like it really sucks to be them right then. Look at that, I'm back to ranting about why this should suck. One last subject, the sword. It's idiotic how they did not use it earlier, they don't give anything suggesting why the pilots couldn't use it, and so it's okay to say that it's stupid that they did not do it earlier.
Final words, after all this ranting and what have you, why 8/10? If you were paying attention, you would have noticed sentence: guilty pleasure, and that sums up everything about Pacific Rim. The acting horrible, it makes no sense on some degrees, but it's fun to watch. If I wasn't having as much fun with it as I did, then this probably an average 6/10. So with that said, I can't wait for the Blu-ray and when it's here I'll probably watch it dozens of times more.